sinuous
\SIN-yoo-uhs\ , adjective:
1.Characterized by many curves or turns; winding.
2.Characterized by graceful curving movements.
3.Not direct; devious.
Quotes:
Long gone are the days when a "robotic movement" meant something jerky, awkward, and stiff: The new robo-fish that have just been unveiled by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology swim through the water with sinuous grace.
-- Eliza Strickland, Robo-Fish Are Ready to Take to the Seas, Discover Magazine, August 25, 2009
A single tree
With sinuous trunk, boughs exquisitely wreathed,
Grew there; an ash which Winter for himself
Decked out with pride, and with outlandish grace
-- William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book VI, "
The final 15 miles featured narrow and sinuous roads made even tighter by huge crowds lining the sides. Crashes seemed inevitable.
-- Samuel Abt, CYCLING; Crashes Jolt the Standings, And Oust a Tour Favorite, New York Times, July 5, 2006
Origin:
Sinuous is from Latin sinuĊsus, from sinus, curve.
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